Fl4m3Ph03n1x

Fl4m3Ph03n1x

Background

I have a project that needs to run on a Mac machine. I have installed erlang 22.0 and Elixir 1.7.0 using asdf and I have tried to install the dependencies using mix deps.get.

Problem

However when I try to run it I get the following error:

(MatchError) no match of right hand side value: {:error, {:ssl, {'no such file or directory', 'ssl.app'}}}

I have tried to fix the issue by following this SO question but it didn’t fix the problem:

Questions

How can I fix this ?

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OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

In the iex terminal what’s the output of :ssl.start()?

And what version of OTP, 22.0.?? Try to make sure it is 22.0.7.

Fl4m3Ph03n1x

Fl4m3Ph03n1x OP

iex(1)> :ssl.start()
** (UndefinedFunctionError) function :ssl.start/0 is undefined (module :ssl is not available)
:ssl.start()

So, I should install erlang 22.0.7 with asdf? I’m on it !

OvermindDL1

OvermindDL1

I would. The fact that :ssl doesn’t exist means it couldn’t bind with the SSL library on your system. As I recall I think Mac’s changed the SSL implementation recently and the very latest OTP’s have support for it or something like that?

kokolegorille

kokolegorille

Yeah last mac update was painful.

Here is what I did to make it work.

  • update asdf
  • update asdf erlang
  • update asdf elixir
  • reinstall tools

Something like this

$ asdf update
$ asdf plugin-update erlang
$ asdf plugin-update elixir

$ asdf list-all erlang
$ asdf list-all elixir

$ asdf install erlang 22.0.7
$ asdf global erlang 22.0.7

$ asdf install elixir 1.9.1-otp-22
$ asdf global elixir 1.9.1-otp-22

$ mix local.hex
$ mix local.rebar

Not to mention I had to update node, yarn and postgresql in the process…

Fl4m3Ph03n1x

Fl4m3Ph03n1x OP

Thank you everyone for the help, it solved the issue!

prabhugopal

prabhugopal

After long struggle, following Step 2: Parametrized compilation of Erlang in the following link helped me to resolve the issue with ssl and build & install erlang 23.0.2 in mac (Mojave)

https://pattern-match.com/blog/2019/01/27/erlang-how-to-safely-build-erlang-with-crypto-without-openssl-issues/

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